Wednesday, June 11, 2008

No It's Not

The attack consists of a flood of ICMP echo reply packets generated by exploiting the "broadcast address" feature of the Internet Protocol. It is defended against by dropping packets aimed for such addresses outside of local networks (i.e. at routers). See here, as well as the CERT-CC advisory.

The 'fraggle attack' is a similar concept but using the UDP protocol rather than ICMP (after many people just started blocking ICMP at the firewall.)

Protect Your Bits

Nothing You Wanted to Know

A classical liberal & modern libertarian, economically laissez faire, and a governmental minimalist. Somewhat surprised to find this puts me way to the right of Chingis Khan.
Really, really pissed off at the endemic stupidity of the British governing cliques. Sometimes lets his potty mouth get the better of him.